St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-15
AT WARRINGTON.
AN Enth usi iastic Anti-COercfOn
Meeting Held at the Nations Capi.

tai.
WASHINGTON, April IA meeting
was held here this evening in Masonic
Temple to give expression on the part of
American residents and sojourners at the
national capitaf' to protest against the
passage OF the coercion bill for Ireland now
pending in the British parliament. The
audience was a well dressed and orderly
but enthusiastic thrOng. and filled the hall
completely. The chairman of the commit
tee called the meeting to order and intro
duced Congressman Springer, of Illinois, to
preside. After stating the purpose of
the meeting, Mr. Springer said it seemed to
him that history was repeating itself. The
contest now going on in Great Britain in
reference to the government of Ireland was
in many respects very similar to that which
was carried on in the American colonies.
Ireland's leaders were now seeking peace
full way out of their difficulties. In this
great contest for liberty and home rule it
must not be assumed that the English peO-
pie were a party to the wrong. Let the
people of Ireland preserve their equanimity,
submit as long as submission was possible,
and the time would not be long delayed
when the English people themselves-the
Workingmen--would right the wrongs of
treasury, was then introduced. and said
that forever 300 years the position of Ire
land and her people had been an exception
to what had happened to all other people of
the world. More than 100 coercion bills
had been passed by the British parliament
since Ireland was deprived of her own par
lament, and the very fact that new one
was pending was proof that these measures
had been utterly futile. He believed
THE OBJECT OF LAW
was to cause reason and justice to take the
place Of force. If that were true then the
coercion bill is an outrage on reason and
justice. Ex-senator Van Wyck, of Ne
braska, was next introduced. He quoted
from the circular calling for the meeting the
references to the threatened suspension of
the writ of habeaS corpus in time of peace,
the abridgement and in some cases aboi-
tiOn of the right of trial by jury. the trans
portation of Irishmen charged with pre-
tended offenses" to England for trial by
alien juries, and the quartering of large
bodies of troops among the people of
Ireland, thus eating away our subStance''
and drew parallel between them and the
passages in the American Declaration of
Independence relating to the quartering
large bodies of armed troops among us, the
deprivation in many cases of the benefit of
trial by jury, the transporting of all Ameri-
cans beyond seas to be tried for pretended
offenses, etc. England, he said. had more
reason for her pretended right to Cypress
the colonies than she has for depressing
Ireland. We owed Ireland debt con-
tracted more than hundred years ago and
we could now pay portion of it in sympa-
thy and dollars and saying to England that
it concerns America that the Judgment
made up by the revolution to which she
was party should be recognized in her
dealings with those who were then our al
lies and have always been our friends Con-
gresham Grain. of Texas. read to the meet
ing the resolutions prepared by the COM
mlttee appointed for the purpose. They
are as follows:
Resolved, That we, the citizens of the capi-
tai of the United States, in mass meeting as
sembled, sincerely sympathise with Hon.
William E. Gladstone and Charles S. Parnell
in their gallant battle against this barbarous
coercion bill, and that we earnestly and in
diguantly protest against the passage, by the
British parliament, of a measure calculated
to brutalize aud enslave the people of Ireland
Resolved. That the enactment of such dia.
bolical laws would not alone be an outrage or
the Irish, but a crime against the spirit OF
liberty everywhere, and the trainers and ad.
vocates of the coercion bill should go tc
posterity condemned by humanity and
branded with infamy.